Battery options BESIDES Optima?
Vanity.
Instead of simply relocating the battery to the trunk, I am hiding the batteries under the false floor in area between the trunk and the rear seat my fb barracuda.
I plan to have street rod style upholstery in the trunk and do not want to see a battery box. Underhood clean, trunk clean.
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I'm referring more to possible danger............depending on how you do this, you could be building a bomb. Batteries DO occasionally explode. I myself was nearby for one that still defies some explanation, "read on."
This happened in my small garage, with the door open, on a 30's -- 40's F winter day. I had a Pontiac, belonging to someone, which I was doing some minor work on. I had an unrelated starter which I'd had apart, forgotten.......replaced the solenoid maybe.
So I wanted a "quick check" that the starter worked.
So I hooked my jumpers to the Pontiac battery. Bear in mind the engine and battery were cold, and it was not on the charger. This means the battery should not have been gassing any hydrogen
Down on the floor, some feet away, I have the starter "underfoot." I hook one cable to the starter ground, hook the other to the solenoid, and jumper it.
BANG!!!!! We have parts of battery, and battery acid........on the ceiling.......on the way down!!!!!!!!!!!
I had to get the hose on a cold winter day, wash the car, engine, etc, water all over the garage, which was never designed for this, and of course replace the battery.
No battery, as proved by problems with such things as modern lithium ions, are exempt from problems, fire, and explosion.
Now there HAS been cars made with batteries behind the seat, Jag, etc, MG? and some others. I can guarantee you that if you gather up enough "hippies from the sixties" that eventually you'll find a former vee dub owner that's experienced an "unhandy" battery fail in a bug....under the rear seat.
